M-DAY, one of Quesada's biggest blunders

[Karma]

After reading this article on M-Day, I decided to post here.

M-Day always bothered me. Even though I wasnt reading as closely as i once was, I was still following several titles and I knew what was going on.

Prior to M-Day, Morrison had taken the X-men and mutants in general in a very bizarre and uncertain direction, exploration sometimes gastly mutations and brinding Genosha to the forefront etc.

Quesada has stated that "we wanted to make mutants a minority again and put the genie back in the bottle" so through bendis, he unleashed Avengers dissasembled, House of M, M-day/Decimation taking the mutant population from millions to under 200.

I said this once on another message board..."that's not a minority...thats not even a 'small town'"

I didnt care for what Morrison was doing with the X-men and i definately didnt approve of what Quesada allowed to happen to them either.

I'd like to discuss this here and see what anyone thinks of this. The original post makes some VERY clear and (imo) dead on points about the Joe Q's problem with controlling his editorial agenda urges, not to mention the tremendous disservice done to one of Marvel's biggest money makers. Claremont brought X-men to the hearts and minds of generations by making the the PERFECT, heart touching metaphor for many minorities including blacks, gays and women. sheer volume of them doesnt mean they're the majority as they were still being attacked, killed and targeted until Joe Q commanded Scarlet Witch to do her worst (and ultimately destroyed THAT character's likeability among many readers forever as well).

KUDOS to writers like Christopher Yost who were able to come in after this major misstep and tap into the MAJOR doom/gloom/dread cast over the mutants by tapping into some of Claremonts greatest characters and ideas (Stryker and the Purifiers) etc and making the X-men sympathetic and meaningful. He also tightened up alot of characters that Morrison had dumbed down, returning them to power and poise AND brought several dead/obscure characters back to the front.

 

[Black King]

I said it before, i liked the Morrison run on X-men. A lot of it from the new school set up, to the work on weapons plus to the mutants slowing out growing the world.

that said i guess M-day was necessary to move back to the original concept of the X-men but my issue with M-day is no one big name lost their powers all the A-list characters kept their powers or gain replacement in short time. I was hoping they do something new but it came off as someone pressing a giant reset button and to me that just makes it seem like bad writing. Retcon don't bug me as long they aren't obvious retcons

 

[Black King]

and you know i find issue with the entire Mutants as a metaphor for prejudice cause in real life there's no difference between Black, White, Straight, Gay, Men or Women, Mutants actually are dangerous. There was a kid in Ultimate X-men woke up one day with powers and accidentally killed 300 people in his town without realizing or having control over it. That is some terrifying shit, if that existed in the real world i be all in favor of mutant registration and power limiters. i would not want my family/friends anywhere near that.

 

[Harbinger]

but this wasnt a good way to do a "reset".

and its interesting someone pointed out that many of the depowered and/or killed characters were black leaving only two mainstay black characters in the x-men. storm (whose a mere shadow of her once glorious self) and prodigy who is on the sidelines.

even so, going by what you say...again, writers like christopher yost managed to make some GREAT lemonade out of this giant lemon but now after 2nd coming, what? its all very mediocre right now.

 

[Clara Oswald]

and you know i find issue with the entire Mutants as a metaphor for prejudice cause in real life there's no difference between Black, White, Straight, Gay, Men or Women, Mutants actually are dangerous. There was a kid in Ultimate X-men woke up one day with powers and accidentally killed 300 people in his town without realizing or having control over it. That is some terrifying shit, if that existed in the real world i be all in favor of mutant registration and power limiters. i would not want my family/friends anywhere near that.

That's a really good point that I've never thought about before BK

 

[Black King]

but this wasnt a good way to do a "reset".

and its interesting someone pointed out that many of the depowered and/or killed characters were black leaving only two mainstay black characters in the x-men. storm (whose a mere shadow of her once glorious self) and prodigy who is on the sidelines.

even so, going by what you say...again, writers like christopher yost managed to make some GREAT lemonade out of this giant lemon but now after 2nd coming, what? its all very mediocre right now.

ugh Storm has been terrible ever since Reg Hudlin decided "they Black Panther is black and Storm is Black . . . lets get them married" Worst Ongoing writer to date. Panther isn't even black he is African!

That's a really good point that I've never thought about before BK

The Worst part was there wasn't even a way to save the life of the kid, They even told him as much we can't let you live cause if we do they're going to put us all in concentration camps because of you and they might be right to. The Whole Mutant issue needs another look at seriously